Finally vacations. It was already hour. 9 days to Tenerife, house of my brother Pablo: rest, excursions, sea and nature. If you do not know it, I recommend to you that you go to the Canary Islands, to anyone of its 7 main islands. Without a doubt it is worth the trouble. We have and it so close…

In the South coast of Tenerife a profitable business has arisen from boats of daily charter for the sighting of whales and dolphins. The boats are from reproductions of pirate boats, to motor catamarans with the helmets with crystal to see whales and dolphins, happening through some standard sailboat of type Jeanneau or Beneteau, of about 15 meters of length.

But without a doubt, the best way to see the whales and to approach them until touching them, is with some boat of an individual, as it were my case in this trip to the Canary Islands.

With It is it Ray 200 Bow Rider of my brother, we sailed between Tenerife and the Gomera, that is a zone where are the “Whales Piloto or Tropical Calderón”. These whales measure of 2 meters (the young) and 4-5 meters, the adult units. They are fed on great calamaries which hunts to great depths between the 2 islands, and part of their time passes in surface, taking the sun, and in state of semi adormilamiento, to save energies.

The first exit (Saturday 22 of March), we were my brother Pablo, his Giovanni friend and I and saw 3-5 groups animal, but when cloudy being and with slight swell, the sighting was not perfect.

After this appetizer, during the week I dedicated myself to make tourism in Tenerife and the Gomera, with the forced visit to the Teide (a paradise for that I have studied geology like), in which I took the cableway that leaves you in to a level of 3,555 meters, to hardly 200 of the top, where there was snow mainly in the North face, and encontrabamos us to a temperature of 7 degrees Celsius. Other zones of recommended visit in the National Park of the Teide are the Roques, the Mountain Mustard and also the Lunar Landscape located to the South this of the Great Volcano.

Others of the visits forced in Tenerife are the Port de la Cruz, where they are projecting the construction of a sport Port (that needs much since there is nor no a sport dockage in this important city), and its famous Zoological Park Dark-brown Park, that has the important pinguinario the more of the world, and a good representation of Gorilas of mountain, besides a very good acuarium.

And a day I dedicated myself to visit the island of the Gomera, the call “Green Island”, with hallucinating defiles and landscapes, tropical vegetation and the National Park of Garajonay, with its characteristic forest of Laurisilva, where there is conditions of humidity and temperature that allow a vegetation of mosses, ferns and a species of laurel. I was in the “fast Ferry” that leaves the Beach of the Christians, in South Tenerife, until San Sebastián of the Gomera. This Ferry of the Fred company Olsen, assured that we would hardly arrive in 30 minutes, but that day we took a little more the account. I did it to the return with Trasmediterranea, with which in 1 hour and a half I stood again in Tenerife. 

And for the navigators, especially interesting it is the capital, San Sebastián of the Gomera, with an excellent Sport Port, equipped and with very good service, and three black sand beaches, surrounded by cliffs and volcanic rock walls.

Also for the fans to the nautical one he is recommendable to visit the different Nautical Clubs from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and to approach also to see Great the Transatlantic ones that frequently they berth in this city.

And after the excursions between week, Saturday 29 of March, as we were dismissed of my visit to see more whales (my brother Pablo, its Alberto friend and I). And in this exit we saw more than 40 Pilot Whales in three groups: in first, the males went (or that we believed since they were the larger units, and in the other two, 8 females (smaller in size), and a pair of young of hardly 1,80 meters in length went. As you can see in the photos, we approached almost until caressing them, a hallucinating experience.

In summary, if you do not know the Canary Islands and Tenerife generally and the Gomera in particular, to go, that is worth the trouble.

A greeting to all

Fdo.: Borja of the Rich one